Qualities Of Myself Essay Examples

Many people struggle to define themselves, and as teenagers, everyone around you is grasping at straws in hopes to find who they are. I am not exempt from this quality, as I daily struggle to not only better improve myself as a person, but to allow myself to be who I am. Often people are unable to see the qualities that others find in them as it can be hard to see oneself from another 's perspective. After careful consideration and the little insight from those around me, I found that my most salient characteristic happens to be that I am overly conscientious and judgemental of myself, in my academic and social life, not only positively but negatively. In my academic life, I have found these characteristics to be quite helpful in certain situations,

When I was younger, my teachers would often tell me I needed to stop worrying so much about what others thought. To this day, I still assume that one person thinks a certain thing about me (negative or positive) when really I was just judging myself. Much of the time I spend second guessing myself, because I think that whatever I planned to do would make me seem weird or make someone dislike me. It got to the point where I assumed that it would be better for me to never do anything or say anything, which in turn made me seem ruder than if I had just gone out of my comfort zone. My introverted nature has never lent itself well to roles of leadership or social standing, and I have become stationary in a state of self-consciousness. For this reason, I would say that my social life is negatively impacted by my conscientiousness and my judgementality of myself. Eventually, my social life and academic life overlap when it comes to assignments that involve or are similar to group projects. Part of me always wants what is best for the group, being a good grade or a better understanding of the material. Just as I do with any other project, I focus on the end product but struggle to speak my mind or take a greater action within the